Cigar-holder.



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' CIGAR HOLDER.

(Application filed July 16, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROLLAND THOMPSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,444, dated July 16,1901.

Application filed July 16, 1900. Serial No. 23,812. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROLLAND THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCigar-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a cigar-holder so constructedthat the cigar can be rigidly secured therein and at the same time willprevent the binding so common to those forms of holders where thecigar-receivin g end has a bell-mouth receiver; and it consists,preferably, in constructing the bowl somewhat larger than the ordinaryholder in the shape of a tapering tube which is provided withacentrally-apertured disk independent of the holder, so that the cigar isheld within the holder by means of the said disk, and the small end ofthe cigar which passes into the bowl is therefore free of contact withthe holder and cannot be pressed together within the bowl sufficientlytight to prevent easy smoking, all of which will now be set forth indetail.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of myimproved cigarholder, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

By the use of this holder it is impossible to insert the cigar sotightly as to prevent the free passage of air through the cigar, sincethe perforated disk is at a point on the cigar where the cross-sectionof the cigar is large enough to prevent compression to the extentnecessary to prevent easy smoking.

The preferred form of constructing the invention is shown in thedrawings, wherein "the holder is made, preferably, of a tapering tube 11of any desired length, open at both ends, Within the larger end of whichis placed a disk 12, with the central aperture 7 large enough to receiveand hold the end of a cigar. This disk may be removable, so that inprac-- tice the disk or ring-like piece can be fitted to the end ofacigar and then placed in the end of the tube, or it may be cast in onepiece with the same.

It is obvious that various mechanical forms may be constructed having insubstance the essence of my invention without departing from its spirit,which is essentially to provide one end of a tubular cigar-holder with acentrally-perforated disk for holding the cigar.

What I claim as new isv The combination with a cigar-holder consistingof a tapering tube and a mouthpiece, of'a centrally apertured diskadapted to be placed on the end of a cigar independent of the holder andbe inserted within the said tube, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 15th day of May, A. D. 1900.

ROLLAND THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

A. J. ZERBE, (J. P. DELANY.

